Update 2020-04-03: We were featured on the Etobicoke Lakeshore Press podcast. Click here to listen to the episode on YouTube (also available on Apple Podcasts).
The COVID-19 virus started to affect us directly on the evening of Wednesday, March 11th as I was heading to bed. I realized that I should probably stock up with enough food and supplies for at least a week. By the end of the next day we had started self-isolation as encouraged by the City of Toronto. Over the next few days I started to see notices on social media about how makers could respond to the health care crisis. Then the notices became requests for help. So I signed up New Toronto Makeshore to a couple of lists. There were a few emails in response to an international list, but the list that made the next step more viable was with Community Make, a variant of the Toronto Maker Festival. Once connected with them I had a group to coordinate with and a place to drop off whatever I could make.
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